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...observing the political action within and beyond the new Joe Louis Arena, they would return to their offices to prepare a second G.O.P. cover, this one on the party's ticket and its prospects in November. Says Friedrich: "It is a great advantage to see an event firsthand, and then to be able to evaluate it from a distance." With 4,500 members of the working press attending, the convention, as always, promised to be almost as much a gathering of journalists as of politicians. TIME'S 13 correspondents on hand include several who have spent months scrutinizing...
...President's Men was, nor has it the knockabout charm of The Electric Horseman. But it is an often powerful film. Its most potent passages come at the beginning. Redford, in the title role, becomes an inmate in a prison in order to experience conditions there firsthand before he takes over as warden. Since I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang almost half a century ago, moviegoers have periodically been made painfully aware of how rotten life can be on a Southern prison farm. Director Rosenberg had a good go at the subject in Cool Hand Luke...
When Presidents get isolated, they miss firsthand observations that sharpen the judgment. They begin to lose the inner instincts that warn when statistics may be deceptive, that suggest human responses that data do not reveal. In no field is it more important to have that internal receptivity than in economics...
Scott has been teaching for 40 years, and much of the current talk about teacher burnout irritates her. She knows firsthand all the problems and questions that beset teachers. "There's a breakdown in family life. Everyone does his own thing," she admits. "The number of children actually doing the work and keeping up are in the minority." Excessive paperwork? "The only way I deal with it is to try to do it," she says, though she now often has to grade papers during lunch hour as well as at home. Kids who won't do homework...
...Quietly or Else is Agnew's firsthand account of how the liberals did him in. Take for example his recollection of what federal law enforcement authorities described as a $2500 cash bribe paid Agnew while he was Vice President: "I want to give you a campaign contribution, but I need your help in getting some work," Agnew remembers his friend as saying. "I will recommend you and do what I can to help you, but I have no control over awarding work," Agnew remembers replaying. "He seemed satisfied," the ex-Maryland governor remembers, "and arrangements were made...